Overview
- Marco Fritz, the DFB’s head of rule interpretation, said on Sky that three Saturday penalty decisions were wrong, including a missed spot kick for Eintracht Frankfurt against Leverkusen, an incorrectly awarded penalty for St. Pauli at Augsburg, and a Leipzig–Mainz call that should have resulted in play continuing.
- In Bayern’s 2–2 at HSV, referee Harm Osmers awarded a penalty when Nicolai Remberg went down after contact from Joshua Kimmich, with VAR checking only a possible offside in the buildup and not the foul itself.
- FC Bayern had three separate penalty appeals rejected in Hamburg involving Michael Olise, a Daniel Elfadli handball review, and a late shove on Josip Stanisic that was instead whistled as an offensive foul.
- Former referee Manuel Gräfe castigated the Kimmich decision and said the league has a broader penalty problem, arguing such calls undermine the game.
- Ex-FIFA referee Urs Meier countered that the Kimmich penalty was defensible, pressed for VAR intervention in the Augsburg and Leipzig incidents, and argued HSV’s Luka Vušković should have been sent off for an early foul on Harry Kane.